The writer only knows [Photoshop is] a graphics editor because he has read or heard it somewhere.
That, and because the product name is a portmanteau of "photo", from the Greek meaning "illuminated or visible", and "shop", from the high school classes where you learn how to manipulate materials into something useful.
Even if the name of Adobe's product is imprecise without context, it still earns more intuitiveness points than "GIMP", so the author's point stands.
And yes, I agree with you that organizing apps in the menus by purpose rather than by publisher is superior. Gnome beats Windows and even OS X on that front.
He was true to his word, though, wasn't he? By resigning, he ended up taking home several thousand less per month, AND he helped the company by getting rid of a demonstrated morale killer.
So druggies will learn to simply swallow their illegal OxyContin to get to HappyLand instead of grinding them up first. It'll take a little longer for the effect to take, but it beats taking a hot pepper up the nose. How is this going to suppress abuse?
I hope to see something like an iPod Video that can store movies at screen sizes creater than 320x240 just so they can be hooked up to TVs and played back anywhere.
I have one, and I've had it for more than a year now. Archos's Gmini 4xx product line is the same size as an iPod, and can playback and output DivX video at up to 640x400 resolution. (Their AVxxx product line can do even higher resolutions, but they are larger devices.)
The drawbacks of this device compared to an Apple product are many -- smaller drive capacity, less elegant interface, far inferior customer service -- but it is proof that the technology exists. Apple's decision not to put it in the current generation of iPods is a purely business decision.
Why should the RUSSIANS (or insert your favorite country here) care for "protection of AMERICAN intellectual blahblah.."?... When first and foremost, they're supposed to be caring for their own "intellectual blahblah"...
One hand washes the other. If Russia's not serious about protecting the rights of Americans doing business in Russia, then what incentive is there for America to give any protections to Russians doing business here? I think it's safe to say that Russia would like to keep trade channels with the United States open, and even open those channels further as their infrastructure allows them. They can't stay open if all the value is leaking out one end.
And this will somehow pass, and we'll go on trying to get countries to uphold US Law in their own land, and more and more and more people will get to love us, don't you think?...
You somehow seem to think that reciprocal copyright protections were an American creation foisted upon a recalcitrant Rest Of The World. Yet the Berne Convention, to which the United States and the Russian Federation are both signatories, was developed by an international coalition and has been in effect for over 35 years.
It's not US law that the RIAA is trying to have enforced here, though they are a US organization and are looking out for US interests. It is INTERNATIONAL law. Russia agreed to it, the RIAA wants them to enforce it.
Ideas can be precious and highly valuable things, and those who produce them are sometimes the most productive people in the world.
Not only that, but they are a renewable resource. An idea can't be "used up". Indeed, putting an idea into use often is the impetus for MORE NEW ideas to come into existence.
The same can't be said about all physical resources. When all the oil under Kuwait has been pumped, or all the rainforest in Brazil cut down, what wealth will those countries have to rely on?
the fact that Americans gravitate naturally towards a superpowerful, unconstitutional dictator coupled with hypermilitarism, suppression of dissent, and directed fear against a faceless adversary.
HEY!
Only fifty-one percent of Americans gravitate towards such a state, thank you very much.
The reason why Godwin's Law (someone will say Hitler) and it's Corollary (that means Game Over) are useful is that regardless of the merits of the comparison, mentioning the Nazis invariably provokes an emotional reaction. Emotion is the enemy of thoughtful, reasoned debate.
There very well are some valid comparisons between the American state today and the German state 70 years ago, but please, if you wish to engage in rational discourse, try not to use language that suggests a party to the debate wants to kill 5 million Jewish people.
A guy who also does podcasts, gets a fine for not respecting local media restrictions (like requesting a licences for analog radio broadcasts and registering yourself,)
Important questions are: are there other people who are also failing to comply with local media restrictions? Are those people being fined as well? What is the content of other illegal broadcasts?
Enforcement of the law is fine. It is selective enforcement of the law, based upon content, that concerns me. We're dealing with the same issue with the FCC here in the United States. Howard Stern gets fined millions of dollars for crass anatomical references, while our children are watching scenes of horrific ultraviolence.
The idea is that it's not the job of the SQL server to validate dates.
I'll buy this to a certain extent -- while it's nice if the RDBMS has the capability to affirm whether a date 1000 years in the past would be valid under the Gregorian calendar system, I wouldn't consider this a critical feature for most database applications.
However. If they are going to claim that they support standard ANSI datatypes such as DATE, they need to conform to the definitions of those datatypes as specified by ANSI. Coercing uninterpretable date strings to a "special value" of "0000-00-00" (which I suppose is almost, but not entirely, unlike NULL) is not allowed for.
The nice thing is that MySQL has allowed admins to force the proper behavior. The not nice thing is that there's plenty of code already out there that relies on things working the old way.
a retail software transaction can now be decomposed into two separate offer-acceptance-consideration sequences: The first is a regular sale, where money is traded for a box containing a disc. The second is a license or licence to decrypt the installer, where your rights are traded for decryption during the install process. The disc is useful only as a toy until you enter into this second contract.
Wouldn't the seller then be required to put a big label warning "HEY, this disc is useful only as a toy until you enter into this second contract" on the box?
How much is a box of useless encrypted bits worth on the open market, anyway?
What effect would such a label have on buyer confusion, and ultimately, sales? And ultimatelier, piracy?
if the system detects the licence plates and identifies them as being (a) not valid (ie. Not a number in the database), (b) duplicates or (c) stolen - then that would flag the system and tell it to track the plates.
Logging real-time information about the whereabouts of every motor vehicle in the country is one thing, but running real-time reporting on that information as it's collected is something completely different.
Just about any kind of uniqueness check or validation on arbitrary plate numbers is going to be prohibitively slow. DBAs, think of the vast collections of (unordered, unindexed) data that would have to be scanned constantly.
i just designed a guitar with 6 frets and 24 strings...of course, now the tuning pattern is completely different, so i'll call it..uhh..."new standard tuning"! i wonder if it'll catch on.
You're a little late to the party... New Standard Tuning (CGDAEG, rather than the old standard EADGBE) has been around for about 20 years now.
And no, it hasn't caught on, except among a small, Dvorak-like community.
What I don't get is why the people in the Republican party who really do have morals and ethics don't speak out against the path that Bush, Rove, and Cheney are taking their party down.
One hand washes the other. Because they support the GOP, the GOP will support them.
Together, the neo-Cons and the classic-Cons have enough strength to beat Democrats more often than not. Were they to split up along ideological lines and give us a three-party system, Democrats would be able to win every time with as little as 34% of the vote.
One day the military are brought in during an emergency to serve as a temporary police force without following proper legal procedure, the next day they're brought in during an "emergency" to "gaurd" polling places.
I think there should be armed guards posted at the edges of your Slippery Slope there. Someone could fall down and get hurt!
Please type in the phrase "bush constitution just a piece of paper" into google and see for yourself.
"Google" is not an intrinsically credible source. Nor is "Capitol Hill Blue", which seems to be the primary vector of this "just a piece of paper" tale.
Find a credible secondary source that confirms this story, please.
There isn't a single person on death row or executed in the history of the USA who has who has ordered so many killings, kidnappings and tortures.
None of the people on death row got authorization from Congress to use military force, though.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and Gonzales should be quickly tried and promptly executed
WHOA. What?
You presume the guilt of these men for crimes of treason, and act like YOU'RE the one fighting on the side of our rights and liberties? Put down the LaRouche pamphlets and try reading your Constitution instead.
That article is poorly researched. No mention of hugely influential (and successful) machines such as the Sinclair ZX-81 or Spectrum?
The what or the whatwhat? Those machines were neither hugely influential nor successful in the North American market, which this article seems to focus on.
Well, you know the old saying... Jack of all trades, master of none.
I do know the old saying, but I'm not really sure how it applies. Are you suggesting that the ability to play MP3's over a network DETRACTS from a console's ability to play games somehow?
AI and physics isn't really a limitation of the processor, its a limitation of the developers.
To do them well, you actually need both. Academics don't typically run fluid modeling simulations on Apple II's, after all; they use massive, powerful computer systems that cost more than your house. The more processing power you have, the better your physics simulation can be.
Absolutely agree though that in the current gaming market, the bottleneck is developer time. Anyone who wants to make a game that will sell a lot of copies isn't going to be too interested in improving game physics, unless it's the physics of a DoA girl's mammoth bosoms.
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the time a fellow employee with root access decided to see if the 'del' command had any help.
Well there's your problem, right there. Someone who tries to use DOS command syntax at a Unix prompt shouldn't have root access.
The writer only knows [Photoshop is] a graphics editor because he has read or heard it somewhere.
That, and because the product name is a portmanteau of "photo", from the Greek meaning "illuminated or visible", and "shop", from the high school classes where you learn how to manipulate materials into something useful.
Even if the name of Adobe's product is imprecise without context, it still earns more intuitiveness points than "GIMP", so the author's point stands.
And yes, I agree with you that organizing apps in the menus by purpose rather than by publisher is superior. Gnome beats Windows and even OS X on that front.
He was true to his word, though, wasn't he? By resigning, he ended up taking home several thousand less per month, AND he helped the company by getting rid of a demonstrated morale killer.
So druggies will learn to simply swallow their illegal OxyContin to get to HappyLand instead of grinding them up first. It'll take a little longer for the effect to take, but it beats taking a hot pepper up the nose. How is this going to suppress abuse?
I hope to see something like an iPod Video that can store movies at screen sizes creater than 320x240 just so they can be hooked up to TVs and played back anywhere.
I have one, and I've had it for more than a year now. Archos's Gmini 4xx product line is the same size as an iPod, and can playback and output DivX video at up to 640x400 resolution. (Their AVxxx product line can do even higher resolutions, but they are larger devices.)
The drawbacks of this device compared to an Apple product are many -- smaller drive capacity, less elegant interface, far inferior customer service -- but it is proof that the technology exists. Apple's decision not to put it in the current generation of iPods is a purely business decision.
Why should the RUSSIANS (or insert your favorite country here) care for "protection of AMERICAN intellectual blahblah.."?... When first and foremost, they're supposed to be caring for their own "intellectual blahblah"...
One hand washes the other. If Russia's not serious about protecting the rights of Americans doing business in Russia, then what incentive is there for America to give any protections to Russians doing business here? I think it's safe to say that Russia would like to keep trade channels with the United States open, and even open those channels further as their infrastructure allows them. They can't stay open if all the value is leaking out one end.
And this will somehow pass, and we'll go on trying to get countries to uphold US Law in their own land, and more and more and more people will get to love us, don't you think?...
You somehow seem to think that reciprocal copyright protections were an American creation foisted upon a recalcitrant Rest Of The World. Yet the Berne Convention, to which the United States and the Russian Federation are both signatories, was developed by an international coalition and has been in effect for over 35 years.
It's not US law that the RIAA is trying to have enforced here, though they are a US organization and are looking out for US interests. It is INTERNATIONAL law. Russia agreed to it, the RIAA wants them to enforce it.
Ideas can be precious and highly valuable things, and those who produce them are sometimes the most productive people in the world.
Not only that, but they are a renewable resource. An idea can't be "used up". Indeed, putting an idea into use often is the impetus for MORE NEW ideas to come into existence.
The same can't be said about all physical resources. When all the oil under Kuwait has been pumped, or all the rainforest in Brazil cut down, what wealth will those countries have to rely on?
the fact that Americans gravitate naturally towards a superpowerful, unconstitutional dictator coupled with hypermilitarism, suppression of dissent, and directed fear against a faceless adversary.
HEY!
Only fifty-one percent of Americans gravitate towards such a state, thank you very much.
The reason why Godwin's Law (someone will say Hitler) and it's Corollary (that means Game Over) are useful is that regardless of the merits of the comparison, mentioning the Nazis invariably provokes an emotional reaction. Emotion is the enemy of thoughtful, reasoned debate.
There very well are some valid comparisons between the American state today and the German state 70 years ago, but please, if you wish to engage in rational discourse, try not to use language that suggests a party to the debate wants to kill 5 million Jewish people.
A guy who also does podcasts, gets a fine for not respecting local media restrictions (like requesting a licences for analog radio broadcasts and registering yourself,)
Important questions are: are there other people who are also failing to comply with local media restrictions? Are those people being fined as well? What is the content of other illegal broadcasts?
Enforcement of the law is fine. It is selective enforcement of the law, based upon content, that concerns me. We're dealing with the same issue with the FCC here in the United States. Howard Stern gets fined millions of dollars for crass anatomical references, while our children are watching scenes of horrific ultraviolence.
The idea is that it's not the job of the SQL server to validate dates.
I'll buy this to a certain extent -- while it's nice if the RDBMS has the capability to affirm whether a date 1000 years in the past would be valid under the Gregorian calendar system, I wouldn't consider this a critical feature for most database applications.
However. If they are going to claim that they support standard ANSI datatypes such as DATE, they need to conform to the definitions of those datatypes as specified by ANSI. Coercing uninterpretable date strings to a "special value" of "0000-00-00" (which I suppose is almost, but not entirely, unlike NULL) is not allowed for.
The nice thing is that MySQL has allowed admins to force the proper behavior. The not nice thing is that there's plenty of code already out there that relies on things working the old way.
Yes, that would be true if the scenario had specified exactly 200 employees, and that the company would never grow beyond having 1000 customers.
Not saying I would invest in such a company myself, but its fiscal outlook isn't as dire as your napkin mathematics would indicate.
SHOOT!! you want to see MySQL get its bum kicked on performance? Run a test on a filesystem against MySQL.
Well, at least MySQL is more robust than MySQL...
a retail software transaction can now be decomposed into two separate offer-acceptance-consideration sequences: The first is a regular sale, where money is traded for a box containing a disc. The second is a license or licence to decrypt the installer, where your rights are traded for decryption during the install process. The disc is useful only as a toy until you enter into this second contract.
Wouldn't the seller then be required to put a big label warning "HEY, this disc is useful only as a toy until you enter into this second contract" on the box?
How much is a box of useless encrypted bits worth on the open market, anyway?
What effect would such a label have on buyer confusion, and ultimately, sales? And ultimatelier, piracy?
Java is one of the first languages that was well planned and well designed with a theoretical basis in mind.
Was that before or after the designers decided "well, we better make the syntax pretty similar to C++, so there's a chance people might adopt it"?
if the system detects the licence plates and identifies them as being (a) not valid (ie. Not a number in the database), (b) duplicates or (c) stolen - then that would flag the system and tell it to track the plates.
Logging real-time information about the whereabouts of every motor vehicle in the country is one thing, but running real-time reporting on that information as it's collected is something completely different.
Just about any kind of uniqueness check or validation on arbitrary plate numbers is going to be prohibitively slow. DBAs, think of the vast collections of (unordered, unindexed) data that would have to be scanned constantly.
i just designed a guitar with 6 frets and 24 strings...of course, now the tuning pattern is completely different, so i'll call it..uhh..."new standard tuning"! i wonder if it'll catch on.
You're a little late to the party... New Standard Tuning (CGDAEG, rather than the old standard EADGBE) has been around for about 20 years now.
And no, it hasn't caught on, except among a small, Dvorak-like community.
What I don't get is why the people in the Republican party who really do have morals and ethics don't speak out against the path that Bush, Rove, and Cheney are taking their party down.
One hand washes the other. Because they support the GOP, the GOP will support them.
Together, the neo-Cons and the classic-Cons have enough strength to beat Democrats more often than not. Were they to split up along ideological lines and give us a three-party system, Democrats would be able to win every time with as little as 34% of the vote.
One day the military are brought in during an emergency to serve as a temporary police force without following proper legal procedure, the next day they're brought in during an "emergency" to "gaurd" polling places.
I think there should be armed guards posted at the edges of your Slippery Slope there. Someone could fall down and get hurt!
Even the article acknowledges that since then Bush had the Department of Justice look over and revise the program.
Who cares how many pieces of candy I stole last week? The important things is that I haven't stolen any candy TODAY!
Second, the original eavesdropping was only on traffic into and out of the country, not on internal traffic
So? That doesn't make it any less of a violation of the rights of those were were eavesdropped upon.
Also, the initial impetus for monitering some of this traffic was a couple of captured terrorist's cell phones and computers.
Bullshit. If it were only known terrorists that were being monitored, the government would not have had any difficulty getting warrants for wiretaps.
Please type in the phrase "bush constitution just a piece of paper" into google and see for yourself.
"Google" is not an intrinsically credible source. Nor is "Capitol Hill Blue", which seems to be the primary vector of this "just a piece of paper" tale.
Find a credible secondary source that confirms this story, please.
There isn't a single person on death row or executed in the history of the USA who has who has ordered so many killings, kidnappings and tortures.
None of the people on death row got authorization from Congress to use military force, though.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and Gonzales should be quickly tried and promptly executed
WHOA. What?
You presume the guilt of these men for crimes of treason, and act like YOU'RE the one fighting on the side of our rights and liberties? Put down the LaRouche pamphlets and try reading your Constitution instead.
the biggest mistake MS made was [...] to move the video drivers into
kernelspace in NT 4.0.
Oh, I don't know if that was the BIGGEST mistake they have made...
That article is poorly researched. No mention of hugely influential (and successful) machines such as the Sinclair ZX-81 or Spectrum?
The what or the whatwhat? Those machines were neither hugely influential nor successful in the North American market, which this article seems to focus on.
Well, you know the old saying ... Jack of all trades, master of none.
I do know the old saying, but I'm not really sure how it applies. Are you suggesting that the ability to play MP3's over a network DETRACTS from a console's ability to play games somehow?
AI and physics isn't really a limitation of the processor, its a limitation of the developers.
To do them well, you actually need both. Academics don't typically run fluid modeling simulations on Apple II's, after all; they use massive, powerful computer systems that cost more than your house. The more processing power you have, the better your physics simulation can be.
Absolutely agree though that in the current gaming market, the bottleneck is developer time. Anyone who wants to make a game that will sell a lot of copies isn't going to be too interested in improving game physics, unless it's the physics of a DoA girl's mammoth bosoms.